PMID: 6411733Aug 1, 1983Paper

Regulation of tyrosinase in human melanocytes grown in culture

The Journal of Cell Biology
R HalabanA B Lerner

Abstract

Tyrosinase, the enzyme that controls the synthesis of melanin, is a unique product of melanocytes. Normal and malignant human melanocytes grown in culture were used to study the factors that regulate the expression of tyrosinase. Immunoprecipitation experiments showed that newly synthesized tyrosinase appeared as a protein with an apparent molecular weight of 70,000 that was processed to a protein with an apparent molecular weight of 80,000. Neither tunicamycin nor 2-deoxy-D-glucose inhibited this conversion, suggesting that O-glycosylation is the major biochemical event in the posttranslational modification of tyrosinase. Agents that stimulated the proliferation of normal melanocytes also stimulated tyrosinase activity. Melanocytes with low levels of tyrosinase activity synthesized less tyrosinase, processed the enzyme more slowly, and degraded it more rapidly than melanocytes with high levels of tyrosinase activity. We conclude that tyrosinase activity in cultures of human melanocytes derived from different donors is determined predominantly by its abundance.

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